By successfully luring terrorists into action the Pentagon, Floyd writes, "can then take measures against the 'states/sub-state actors accountable' for 'harboring' the Rumsfeld-roused gangs. What kind of measures exactly? Well, the classified Pentagon program puts it this way: 'Their sovereignty will be at risk.'"
"Right now, there is a lot more we don't know about the [DSB] proposal than we do know. The underlying principle of P2OG is not new," Steven Aftergood, the head of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists told me. The idea of trying to trigger a response from an opponent is basic and has been around since ancient times," he added. The initiatives advanced by the DSB "may not be a bad idea," but before anything like this is put into place, "it deserves to be closely scrutinized by Congress."
"There are laws that need to be complied with," Aftergood added, but he agreed with my characterization that it appears that laws are being "rewritten" as we speak.
"Right now, there is a lot more we don't know about the [DSB] proposal than we do know. The underlying principle of P2OG is not new," Steven Aftergood, the head of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists told me. The idea of trying to trigger a response from an opponent is basic and has been around since ancient times," he added. The initiatives advanced by the DSB "may not be a bad idea," but before anything like this is put into place, "it deserves to be closely scrutinized by Congress."
"There are laws that need to be complied with," Aftergood added, but he agreed with my characterization that it appears that laws are being "rewritten" as we speak.